both of these environments, both outside the child's home and the environment inside the child's home can have a significant impact on children's development and pay off for our country, both for this economy and for our future economy. despite the expanded awareness about the importance of better quality for young children, you hear that from our other panelists, there is an important for parents to work. we have still not on the will to ensure that all of our children and their families have the early childhood programs that they need. we owe our young children and our families who are trying desperately to work. we owe them better. we need to do this for the sake of our nation of's economic success. early childhood does not have an extensive funding stream. the bulk of support comes from parents. we cannot build high-quality system was sick and garments with parents picking up the majority of the costs -- we cannot build high-quality education and systems with parents picking up the majority of the costs. you have seen -- they are stretching themselves as far as they can. we can le